id,page,ref,title,content,breadcrumbs,references
writing_plugins:writing-plugins-configuration,writing_plugins,writing-plugins-configuration,Writing plugins that accept configuration,"When you are writing plugins, you can access plugin configuration like this using the  datasette plugin_config()  method. If you know you need plugin configuration for a specific table, you can access it like this: 
             plugin_config = datasette.plugin_config(
    ""datasette-cluster-map"", database=""sf-trees"", table=""Street_Tree_List""
) 
             This will return the  {""latitude_column"": ""lat"", ""longitude_column"": ""lng""}  in the above example. 
             If there is no configuration for that plugin, the method will return  None . 
             If it cannot find the requested configuration at the table layer, it will fall back to the database layer and then the root layer. For example, a user may have set the plugin configuration option like so: 
             {
    ""databases: {
        ""sf-trees"": {
            ""plugins"": {
                ""datasette-cluster-map"": {
                    ""latitude_column"": ""xlat"",
                    ""longitude_column"": ""xlng""
                }
            }
        }
    }
} 
             In this case, the above code would return that configuration for ANY table within the  sf-trees  database. 
             The plugin configuration could also be set at the top level of  metadata.json : 
             {
    ""title"": ""This is the top-level title in metadata.json"",
    ""plugins"": {
        ""datasette-cluster-map"": {
            ""latitude_column"": ""xlat"",
            ""longitude_column"": ""xlng""
        }
    }
} 
             Now that  datasette-cluster-map  plugin configuration will apply to every table in every database.","[""Writing plugins""]",[]